The First Development of Human Factors Engineering Requirements for Application to Ground Task Design for a NASA Flight Program

2008-01-2103

06/29/2008

Event
International Conference On Environmental Systems
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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has long applied standards-derived human engineering requirements to the development of hardware and software for use by astronauts while in flight. The most important source of these requirements has been NASA-STD-3000. While there have been several ground systems human engineering requirements documents, none has been applicable to the flight system as handled at NASA's launch facility at Kennedy Space Center. At the time of the development of previous human launch systems, there were other considerations that were deemed more important than developing worksites for ground crews; e.g., hardware development schedule and vehicle performance. However, experience with these systems has shown that failure to design for ground tasks has resulted in launch schedule delays, ground operations that are more costly than they might be, and threats to flight safety. As the Agency begins the development of new systems to return humans to the moon, the new Constellation Program is addressing this issue with a new set of human engineering requirements. Among these requirements is a subset that will apply to the design of the flight components and that is intended to assure ground crew success in vehicle assembly and maintenance tasks. These requirements address worksite design for usability and for ground crew safety.
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DOI
https://doi.org/10.4271/2008-01-2103
Pages
7
Citation
Dischinger, H., Stambolian, D., and Miller, D., "The First Development of Human Factors Engineering Requirements for Application to Ground Task Design for a NASA Flight Program," SAE Technical Paper 2008-01-2103, 2008, https://doi.org/10.4271/2008-01-2103.
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Jun 29, 2008
Product Code
2008-01-2103
Content Type
Technical Paper
Language
English